Quotes About Error

No one but a fool is always right.

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

Even the most disciplined commander-in-chief misspeaks from time to time.

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error," Leto explained. "To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,' Leto explained. 'To claim absolute knowledge is to becomemonstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Mohiam had been fond of explaining this particular error to her student, Jessica. "If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it." "And even I, your student, have made it," Jessica whispered to herself.

Tüm insani hatalar sab?rs?zl?ktan, amaçla ilgili olan?n zamans?z kesintiye uÄŸrat?lmas?ndan ve söz sorunun sözde bir çitle çevrilmesinden doÄŸar.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Windows, I would explore it, I would try out various things, I would see what worked, I would see what didn't work.

A basic truth that the history of the creation of the transistor reveals is that the foundations of transistor electronics were created by making errors and following hunches that failed to give what was expected.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge in mathematics.

Lawrence Summers, now the U.S. Treasury secretary , told The Wall Street Journal after the crash, "The efficient market hypothesis is the most remarkable error in the history of economic theory.

Printing mistakes adds value because of the probability calculus, which makes their intrusion into something problematic and almost impossible, even when everything's conceived, precisely, to avoid the intrusion of human error.

Quelque chose a été enfermé en moi, par erreur, dans la peau d'un homme.